Category: Features
Plenty of Goals, But No Real Surprises – La Liga Round Up
After the mid-week action last week, La Liga was back in full swing starting at noon on Saturday in a top four clash between Atletico Madrid and Sevil [...]
Montella’s Milan Mismanagement – The Calcio Consultant
The reality of AC Milan is, while loads of money has been spent in strengthening the squad, the players were going to need time to get acclimated to o [...]
PSG vs Bayern Munich – Champions League Game of the Day
PSG v Bayern Munich, Group B, Parc des Princes, 27th September 7:45pm
Both of the sides facing off in the city of love on Wednesday night are genui [...]
Bayern Bumble as Dortmund Reach Their Max – Bundesliga Zeitung
So, this past week's Bundesliga action was a double-header, thanks to the colloquial "Englische Woche" (writes Andy Wales).
Prior to Tuesday night' [...]
Real Madrid Travel to Lion’s Den in Champions League
It’s another week in the Champions League, and Real Madrid must travel to their least favourite place in Europe: Dortmund (writes Matthias Suuck).
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The Euro Football Writers’ Must See Three
West Ham v Tottenham
Saturday 23rd September, 12:30pm, The London Stadium
For me this is the one Premier League London derby match that still has a [...]
How a Classic Two up Top is Allowing Man City to Reach ‘Peak Pep’
Manchester City’s formation and application on a murky Wednesday night in Rotterdam and a breezy afternoon at Vicarage Road in front of Elton John saw [...]
England’s Mark Sampson Sacked Amidst FA ‘Mess’
The FA recently made headlines after rejecting Liverpool’s appeal to revoke Sadio Mane’s controversial red card. Yet a more interesting story involvin [...]
A Paulo Dybala Debate & Other Takes – The Calcio Consultant
For this instalment of The Calcio Consultant, I am likely going to draw the ire of the Juventus faithful by inconveniencing them with this hot take:
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The State of the United States Mens National Team
In my lifetime, I’ve never had as much uncertainty about something as I did about the United States' chances of qualifying for a World Cup, when I sat [...]